Where: England, United Kingdom (52.7° N, 2.5° W: paleocoordinates 31.9° S, 14.8° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Purple Shale Formation, Telychian (438.5 - 433.4 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified shale and lithified limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: L. R. M. Cocks. 1968. Some strophomenacean brachiopods from the British Lower Silurian. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), London, Geology 15:283-324 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 164202: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 25.11.2014
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Strophomenata | |
Leptaena purpurea n. sp.
Leptaena purpurea n. sp. Cocks 1968 |